BHS PowerPoint Wiki -- A collection of resources for creating (and imagining) PowerPoint presentations (including PowerPoint 2.0)

List of 16 free alternatives to PowerPoint

Zentation--a tool that allows you to show a video in one half of the screen and a PowerPoint to go along with the video in another. Great for video presentations.

List of tools/sites for making charts and graphs

GapMinder--a very powerful data illustration package used to animate data to highlight trends.

TableauPublic--Latest and greatest way to make fascinating charts

ChartGo: For creating charts and diagrams quickly and easily

SlideRocket: On-line presentation tool; lets you create and store presentations on the web so you don't have to carry around bulky PowerPoint files. Lots of great presentation tools

280 Slides: Create slide shows on the web (rather than in a PowerPoint File)

RockYou: For making a slide show with music

Xtimeline: Create a time line

VoiceThread: To create an on-line conversation about a picture or a work of art (or any object, for that matter)

My Brain Shark--a new tool that seems to have a ton of potential. Upload a PPT presentation to this site and you can add voice narration (and many other things) very, very easily.

Many Eyes--a tool developed by IBM offering a variety of cool ways to present data visually

Google Fusion Tables--another way to create interesting ways to present data visually


tool for cell phone polling during a presentation

PechaKucha--great format for quick PowerPoint presentations: 20 slides, 20 seconds apiece. Go! Here's a useful discussion of the value of this format (by Jeff Utrecht) and a description of how he uses this format for students to give final presentations about To Kill a Mockingbird

Great models (and tools) for data visualization

Data visualizations (and tools) for US Government data

Cool Data blog

50 Great Examples of Data Visualization

20 Data Visualization Blogs

Info on using Flikr for Data Visualization

GapMinder Home page--Hans Rosling's work